Detroit Film Theatre

WHO IS HARRY NILSSON (AND WHY IS EVERYBODY TALKIN’ ABOUT HIM?)
Saturday, October 02, 2010
4:00 PM Detroit Film Theatre
USA/2006-directed by John Scheinfeld (117 min.)
At last available for viewing in the U.S., this revealing
and passionately crafted documentary about the legendary singer-songwriter who
died in 1994 features a wealth of previously unseen archival footage, and
mesmerizing interviews with such pivotal figures in Nilsson’s life as Randy
Newman, Brian Wilson, Robin Williams, Eric Idle, Jimmy Webb, Richard Perry, Tom
and Dick Smothers, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, Van Dyke Parks, Al Kooper, Mickey
Dolenz, Terry Gilliam and Dustin Hoffman. Surprising, stirring and evocative, Who Is Harry Nilsson? is a loving and
insightful tribute in which, as Variety
so accurately put it, “the answer to the title is provided distinctly and
definitively.”
